A podium finish for the Aurora Tigers: though standing lower than they would have hoped.
The Junior A organization wrapped...

FIRE AND ICE — Thousands took advantage of sunny Family Day skies on Monday and came to Town Park for Aurora’s annual Arctic Adventure. Here, the crowd gathers for a popular demonstration from The Fire Guy. Auroran photo by Glenn Rodger

Art never fails to spark a conversation, but when nearly sixty students from all four of Aurora’s high schools come together to share over 100 pieces of their creativity, this conversation hits a community crescendo.

Kiss of the Spider Woman is nearly 35 years in the making for Neill Kernohan.
Mr. Kernohan first saw Manuel Puig’s landmark play about two prisoners in a Buenos Aires prison when the film adaptation first graced the silver screen in the mid 1980s and its plot has stuck with him ever since.

It’s a problem that just won’t go away and parking issues continue to plague plans for the redevelopment of Library Square.
Council members had their first crack at revised plans for the long-gestating downtown revitalization project while sitting at the Committee level last Tuesday and, once again, inadequate parking promptly rose to the top of their concerns.

Personal Support Workers (PSWs) dedicate their working lives providing care and support for those who need it.
But who, at the end of the day, supports the PSW?
For Sheri-Lyn Steele, it’s a question that needed to be answered.

Camilla Gibb’s upbringing, by her own admission, wasn’t exactly “jolly.”
A native of England, she grew up in a family headed by a father she describes as “rule-bound, rigid, and ex-military” and “as a consequence of it not being a particularly jolly [atmosphere]” her parents divorced when she was 10. While a divorce is always a challenging time for children, for Ms. Gibb it ultimately helped open up a brand new world to her.

The Ontario Junior Hockey League’s top scorer is turning pro.
Joseph Mizzi left the Aurora Tigers organization last week to sign a contract with the ECHL’s Utah Grizzlies, jumping straight from the Junior A level to the professional ranks in an extremely rare feat.

TD Garden. 15,000 fans. And a trophy.
What a way to end a college career.
Newmarket native and ex-Aurora Tiger Eric Williams captained the Northeastern University Huskies to their second-straight Beanpot tournament title on Monday at the home of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, taking down the rival Boston College Eagles by a score of 4 – 2.

York 9 FC bench boss Jimmy Brennan knows a thing or two about winning a Canadian championship.
In an unprecedented move by the Canadian Soccer Association, members of the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League will have the opportunity to vie for this year’s Voyageurs Cup, the Canadian championship only ever won by Major League Soccer clubs.

The Canadian Premier League is ready for kickoff.
York 9 FC was announced at a Toronto event last week as one of two sides to compete in the League’s inaugural match this coming spring, set to face off against Hamilton’s Forge FC in a road match on April 27.

The St. Andrew’s College Saints have reclaimed their throne.
It took just under 45 minutes of play for the varsity hockey Saints to put away the winning goal in the storied MacPherson tournament, a 35-year tradition hosted by the Saints.

The best of the best on ice are headed to Aurora.
The Central York Girls Hockey Association and the Aurora Panthers announced last week that for the twentieth straight year, the Town of Aurora will host the International Silver Stick tournament from Feb. 1 – 3.

Art never fails to spark a conversation, but when nearly sixty students from all four of Aurora’s high schools come together to share over 100 pieces of their creativity, this conversation hits a community crescendo.

Kiss of the Spider Woman is nearly 35 years in the making for Neill Kernohan.
Mr. Kernohan first saw Manuel Puig’s landmark play about two prisoners in a Buenos Aires prison when the film adaptation first graced the silver screen in the mid 1980s and its plot has stuck with him ever since.

Camilla Gibb’s upbringing, by her own admission, wasn’t exactly “jolly.”
A native of England, she grew up in a family headed by a father she describes as “rule-bound, rigid, and ex-military” and “as a consequence of it not being a particularly jolly [atmosphere]” her parents divorced when she was 10. While a divorce is always a challenging time for children, for Ms. Gibb it ultimately helped open up a brand new world to her.

Convincing someone to set aside their personal biases for a moment and take a new approach in how they look at the world has become an increasingly tall order in this increasingly polarized world, but students at King’s Country Day School are aiming to do just that later this month when they perform The Laramie Project.

For some, Freemasonry is an institution that has been shrouded in the shadows but, here in Canada, its influence is all around us.
But the Aurora Historical Society and Aurora Museum & Archives aim to help shed light on some of the mystery this month with Freemasonry: A History Hidden in Plain Sight, a travelling exhibition that opens this Saturday, February 9, at Hillary House National Historic Site.

Memories are sometimes fleeting, but York Region artists have immortalized their own in “From Memory”, the new juried exhibition of the Society of York Region Artists, which is now on at the Aurora Cultural Centre through Saturday.

The old adage about the road less travelled is not just a saying that has become threadbare over the course of time; it provides a bounty of inspiration – artistic and otherwise – for Aurora artist Rick Armstrong.

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